Developer at Translate.org.za
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
- Current
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- Developer at Translate.org.za
- Curriculum and technology consultant at Arab Digital Expression Camps
- Founder at Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group
- Past
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- Knowledge Management Consultant at TEAM
- Software developer and trainer at Katib Project (Arab Human Rights Information Network)
- ICT coordinator at COSPE Egypt
- Education
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- NCATO's Information technology for Aviation and Aerospace Institute
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Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Summary
Free/Open Source software developer with experience working in ICT4D projects in Egypt and occasionally Sub-Saharan Africa.
Recently my work focussed on empowering human rights activists and journalist with web publishing and social networking tools.
My favored tool is the Drupal content management system.
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Specialties:
Drupal development, MediaWiki development, Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Knowledge Management
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Experience
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Developer
Translate.org.za
(Computer Software industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
Developing tools to aid in translation and localisation focusing on supporting African languages and localisation of open source software
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Curriculum and technology consultant
Arab Digital Expression Camps
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Arab Digital Expression camps are summer camps for teenagers where they learn how to express themselves with Digital Music, Digital Video, Computer Graphics, Web Design, etc.
My role involved working with curriculum designers on the technological aspects of their curriculum, design the camps network and build the a social networking and media publishing website for the camp participants.
I also worked directly with camp participants introducing Web 2.0 concepts and tools and exploring how the web could be used for collaborative creative work and for publishing their work. -
Founder
Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Co founded Egyptian GNU/Linux users Group (http://www.eglug.org) after organizing a hugely successful installfest.
Was elected as Group administrator for the first couple of years.
volunteer work included
* writing FOSS code
* Training and teaching FOSS technologies
* speaking at various conferences and seminars
* organizing FOSS events
* working on internationalization, localization and Arabic interface translation
* having loads of fun and making lots of friends -
Knowledge Management Consultant
TEAM
(Management Consulting industry)
June 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 5 months)
job basically involves introducing some Open Source and Web 2.0 inspired ideas to TEAM's managers and consultants and deploying software tools that can help TEAM employees manage business content (mainly training material) and encode knowledge that was previously implicit either due to lack of formal processes or to lack of awareness of the importance of such knowledge.
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Software developer and trainer
Katib Project (Arab Human Rights Information Network)
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
June 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Katib.org is a Drupal based blogging platform specially designed for Arab human rights defenders and independent journalists.
I worked as lead developer with a team of 4 to adapt and customize drupal, design the server platform, arabize the software, write documentation and design a training program for activists from all over the Arab world. -
ICT coordinator
COSPE Egypt
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
July 2004 — June 2008 (4 years)
Half the job involves building and maintaining the office network at COSPE's Cairo office. including development and adaptation of groupware, business and accounting applications and developing the organization's website.
The other half involves designing ICT4D projects and implementing them with COSPE's local partners (typically very small community development association in rural and marginalized communities). -
Drupal developer
Freelance
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
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Researcher
ENEA
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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Facilitator
Africa Source II (Tactical Tech)
(Computer Software industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
* Facilitator/Training in Information Handling and Advocacy track.
* Presented as a case study how the Egyptian pro democracy movement used ICTs for organizing and mobilizing
* Helped camp participants explore blogging, wikis and other webpublishing tools
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Education
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NCATO's Information technology for Aviation and Aerospace Institute
B.Sc. , Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
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Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Interests:
Free/Open Source Software, Internet, Online Communities, Science Fiction, Politics & Activism, Digital Media, Creative Commons, Blogging, Citizen Journalism
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Groups:
Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group (EGLUG), Drupal community
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Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s Honors:
Reports Sans Frontier & Deutch Special Best of the Blogs award for freedom of Expression 2005
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